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Submission for The Bones of Blood Work: “Kāneʻohe Town” Prompt
Hilo Bay, anno Domini 2546 “You know about the nuclear king tide that just hit Hilo Bay?” “No Puna, no one ever…
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Photo taken June 24th 2006
And one day I will be old, my hair will turn grey, my dark brown will turn to white. The coarse hair of my grandmother will become my own. First…
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2025 “Hatsu Haiku” A Renga-like Group Composition 2nd attempt to submit
This New Year’s Day, in addition to the traditional Ozoni meal, sake toast, and oseichi meal, we had a group challenge to submit their First or “Hatsu” haiku of the…
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Autumn – Winter Haiku
I was out in my yard one morning and heard the faint strains of reveille. Sometimes the wind carries it over from the East Range. It is one of those…
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Jewels of Inferno
My challenge was the Golden Shovel: A newer form, inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks. I took a line from an existing poem and used each word as the end word in…
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In Memory of Humanity : a Than-bauk
Food near but far Gaza markets Old war no die
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No Can Help : a Nonet
We thought was going be pau by Christmas Dey nevah like start for talk yet Dey said gotta teach lessons People no mo kau kau No mo hospital Da land…
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Te Kete, te Tahā Wai ā te Rākau Ngaio (The Basket, the Calabash and the Ngaio Tree)
Aloha BR ‘Ohana, Missed the deadline of last month’s Shoots assignment. I composed a poem based on an ancient tale of the Māori people called Rona. The English translation follows….
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Akule
Akule I was home to Maui for the summer, home from the university and final exams. Dead broke, I took a job picking pineapples in the waning weeks of the…
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The Shift
The Shift Kyla-Marie K. Turner ENG 431 The big classroom hall lights switch off, the rows of chairs disappearing with the fading lights. Visibly, the classroom is reduced to…